A pilot prepares for a medical evacuation mission by helicopter to a hospital, aboard the French surveillance frigate FS Ventose as it sails on a mission off the French Caribbean island of Martinique, on November 15, 2024. The French surveillance frigate FS Ventose is deployed at sea on a Narcops mission to intercept narco-traffickers' vessels potentially transporting narcotics, as part of the fight against drug trafficking in the French West Indies. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)